In 1997 she was awarded the Turner Prize, and her exhibition at the Tate Gallery included Sixty Minute Silence (1996), a large group of actors
dressed as policemen and policewomen and positioned as if for a group photograph attempting to remain still for an hour, one of whom let out a yell at the end.
60 Minutes of Silence, Ms Wearing's film of actors standing still for an hour
dressed as policemen, is perhaps best remembered as the subject of a live Channel 4 News discussion that Ms Emin stormed out of while in a state of heightened refreshment, a defining controversy associated with the Turner.